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Consumer Electronics Show

Attendees pick up credentials at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Visitors will get a sneak peek at the latest in technology and gadgets. Here's a look at a few of the devices on display.

Some folks can't go too long without their TV fix, even when they're on the move. At CES a variety of companies, including LG, Samsung, Vizio, and several outfits you have never heard of, demonstrated a mobile TV offering. Among the more promising accessories due out soon is Tivit, from a Korean startup called Valups. The 2.8-ounce gizmo is under a half-inch thick and smaller than a deck of cards. Through Wi-Fi it can deliver mobile TV to an iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry, Android smartphone or Windows laptop.

Exercise and headphones had long had a love-hate relationship. Music keeps you company during a run or workout, but earbuds can slip out and wires can be bothersome. To solve the problem, revered German headphone maker Sennheiser has teamed with Adidas (also a German company) to make a new selection of sports headphones, arriving in stores now.

Look out Snuggie, there's a new blanket in town -- and it's electric. Ion Audio, known for USB turntables and high-end video game drum sets, is bringing power to the blanket-with-sleeves category.

How do you differentiate yourself in the ever-crowded electronic reader space? For a couple of startups exhibiting at CES, the answer is to provide e-readers with not one display but two. The Entourage Edge "dualbook" from Entourage Systems in McLean, Virginia, is a large -- and at 3 pounds rather heavy - contraption that is part e-reader, part tablet netbook. At 8.9 inches by 4.7 inches, the 11-ounce Alex from Spring Design is a much smaller and lighter device that shares similarities with Edge

Move over, Apple. Another tech heavyweight has an app store. Chip giant Intel just announced Intel AppUp, a software application store for netbook computers. The first apps cover education, entertainment, games, health and social networking. A sampling includes Arnold Palmer Golf, Boxee, Wikihow and Yoono.

The Palm Pre Plus from Verizon Wireless. The mobile carrier is embracing Palm's slick webOS mobile operating system, a boon to the company whose well-received Pre and Pixi phones have been overshadowed by Apple's iPhone and an invasion of Google Android devices.

Two consumer-electronics icons have turned customer feedback into a lightweight, wireless laptop. Toshiba and Best Buy today unwrapped the Satellite E205, a 5-pound, inch-thick laptop that can be wirelessly connected to a big-screen HDTV. The $1,000 laptop made its debut during Intel CEO Paul Otellini's address at the Consumer Electronics Show.

A couple of new "app-enhanced" iPhone/iPod docks from iHome will wake you up in the latest app-infused style. They are both designed to work with a forthcoming iPhone/Touch app called iHome+Sleep that the company says could launch any time now, pending approval from Apple. When used with the new app, both products can track sleep patterns and help you gather other data about your sleep habits. They also offer customizable alarms and music settings and offer ways to interact with your social networks, the company says.

Several big-name newspapers, magazines, and blogs teamed up with Plastic Logic on Thursday to support its effort to establish its new e-reader, called Que, as the first such device for business professionals.

Pandigital's $149 Photo Mail Frame, out in February, requires no Wi-Fi or memory card. It provides you with a dedicated e-mail address, to which you send your photos. They zip from your email account to the Pandigital server, which then routes them to the frame via AT&T's cellular network.

Silicon Valley Global introduced Tunebug, a music speaker that attaches to the top of your bike helmet to beam the sound into your ears the old-fashioned way - without wires.

Kodak introduced its new $149 Play Sport video camera. It shoots in 1080p-HD resolution to SD memory cards. To make sure it was really dunkable, Kodak had a fish tank on hand for testing.

Is it an alarm clock? Yes. Is it also a way to listen to streaming online music from Slacker and watch YouTube videos? Yes again. Sony's DASH is another of those new multi-purpose connected devices. Sony calls it a "personal Internet viewer," meant to reside by the night table, like an alarm clock. It will set you back $199, a lot more than a traditional clock.

Several weeks before Apple is expected to weigh in with a multimedia device with 10-inch touch display, Hewlett-Packard unveiled the prototype of a slate-type computer during Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's evening address at the Consumer Electronics Show here. (That's in addition to several other tablet PCs it announced at the show.) The slate, also touted as a multimedia device with video player, e-reader and multitouch, should be available this year. No name or price were announced.

Add Samsung to the list of companies selling e-readers -- but at a much higher price tag than competitors Amazon, Sony and Barnes & Noble. Samsung's six-inch E-6 and ten-inch E101 will sell for a whopping $399 and $699 when they are available in the spring. Most other e-readers range from $200 to $250.

A host of manufacturers are here at CES are showing off mobile digital TVs, little devices that look similar to old handheld TVs, but with a twist -- they pick up digital signals. LG displayed its $249 DP570MH Mobile Digital television here at the show, which the company calls the "first portable, battery-operated mobile DTV." The unit can pick up "hundreds" of signals being transmitted, thanks to last year's digital TV transition.

ABC News is heading to your Slacker Radio app. The new service is a "dedicated news station" covering national, world, sports, politics, entertainment, business and tech, Slacker says. You'll be able to include headline news for top of the hour updates on any Slacker music station, and skip over segments in much the same way you can skip over songs on Slacker Radio.

A new augmented reality toy helicopter, the AR.Drone by Paris-based technology firm Parrot, is controlled via Wi-Fi with an iPhone or iPod Touch. Moving the iPhone or iPod Touch, which have built-in accelerometers, directs the toy helicopter forward and backward and turning and other directions.

The Mini 3 phone - unveiled by PC maker Dell after months of speculation - will run Google's Android operating system and will be offered by AT&T. Details, including pricing and availability, are expected sometime in the next six months, Dell says.

For the camera purist, Polaroid is introducing a new film camera model, the PIC 1000, which looks and resembles the Polaroid One-Step from the 1970s and 1980s. "Digital is the future, but the market has screamed for the return of Polaroid film," says Jon Pollock, Polaroid's chief marketing officer.

Hewlett Packard and Lenovo each unveiled tablet PCs at this year's show. The Lenovo U1 hybrid pictured looks like your typical laptop, but features a touchscreen that slides out for use as a standalone tablet.